Colonial America in an Atlantic World

By T.H. Breen, Timothy C. Hall, Timothy D. Hall

Book Overview

Key Benefit
Colonial America in an Atlantic World presents the story of interaction and adaptation among the peoples of four continents that resulted in the development of the North American region that became the United States. Authors T.H. Breen and Timothy Hall discuss the social, political, environmental, and cultural processes set in motion by European exploration and settlement, and cover the sometimes-overlooked contributions of Native Americans and Africans to Atlantic history. Expanded to include a new, three-chapter section on the American Revolution, the second edition traces Atlantic history right up through the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788.

Key Topics
Origins of an Atlantic World; Trade and Violence in an Emerging Atlantic World, 1500--1625; Winners and Losers on the Tobacco Coast, 1607--1660; Sugar, Slaves, and Profits: The English Contest for a Caribbean Empire; Cities on a Hill: Bible Commonwealths in New England, 1620--1660; England's Quest for a Commercial Empire; Conflict, Transformation, Realignment; Empires of Guns and Goods: North America at the Opening of the Eighteenth Century; Shifting Borderlands: Migrations in Eighteenth-Century America; The Anglicization of Provincial America; Slavery and Empire: African American Cultures in the Colonial British; Imperial Competition for the American Market; Colonial Alienation within the British Empire; Crucible of Liberty: Varieties of Independence in the Revolutionary War; Independence in an Atlantic World

Market
For readers seeking a balanced, inclusive overview of Atlantic history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205968678
• ISBN13: 9780205968671
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.0"